A post-Budget survey of 189 CEOs and CFOs has found that a majority of them find the Central Statistical Organisation’s new growth estimate of over 7 per cent for 2014-15 to be too optimistic and “too good to be realistic”.…
India’s software and IT-enabled services sector seems to have weathered the global crisis well. Figures just released by the Reserve Bank of India, which place computer services exports in 2013-14 at $71.4 billion, point to a continuation of the smart…
The day after the Indian government banned the BBC documentary India’s Daughter, on the horrific gang rape and killing of a student in Delhi, a 10,000-strong mob broke into a jail in a town in Assam, dragged out an alleged rapist, beat…
The citizens of Greece are not the only ones who have been watching the tense negotiations between the new government in Athens (led by the radical party Syriza) and the European Union (led de facto by the Germans). Not just…
The first round of the auction of mining rights in 18 coal blocks to user firms in the private sector in the power, steel and cement industries has been completed. If the figures being circulated of the revenues or benefits…
